Time for city to make next leap, remove roadblocks: Recruiters

Recruiter Shi Lei sees the 2010 Shanghai Expo as a potential catalyst for companies to embrace greener technologies and reduce their carbon emissions, while also creating tens of thousands of new jobs.

"It's wrong to isolate the human resources issue from a company's developing strategies and market supply," Shi, general manager of China International Intellectual (Shanghai) Corporation, told China Daily.

"The Expo will of course create many new positions," he added, citing new vacancies in the construction and tourism industries, as well as the wealth of foreign investment that is expected to flood into the city.